Specification of James Alexander Manning : treating sewage, &c.

  • James Alexander Manning
Date:
1860
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    Provisional Specification. A.D. I860.—N” 1343. 3 Manning's Improvements in the Treatment of Sevuage, substances by means of destructive distillation, by which process all fibrous or organic matters are destroyed, the mineral or inorganic constituents being alone preserved for the formation of an ash manure. While the nitrogenous gases or other useful products are carried over into receivers to be subsequently fi treated chemically, so as to preserve all that is of a useful and fertilizing character, particularly the ammonia, which when so treated will be restored to the diminished bulk or volume of ash manure derivable from the original wastes. The ash is deprived of all cinders or useless matters after the ammonia, which they may have absorbed in the cesspools or privies, is extracted by the process 10 in question, by means of sifting through fine wire sieves. By this process the whole of the inorganic substances indispensible to the organism and develop¬ ment of plants, will be obtained by the agriculturist without being encumbered with the organic matters which usually abound in such substances. The mineral constituents of the food of man and beast, and of all decomposing 1 ^ matters which are the chief food of plants, are thus returned to the soil; while the nitrogenous or ammoniacal gases, which in the course of decomposition of the animal and vegetable matters contained in the heaps of dirt which are collected in or near to our cities and towns, all of which will thus be totally destroyed to the great benefit of the public health and the purification of the atmosphere, so that the ammonia of the wastes alone will probably be equal in its positive chemical action on the mineral constituents or ash products of the animal and vegetable wastes in question, to convert them, or a considerable per-centage thereof, into food for the organism or development of all plants, and a manure will thus be obtained, which, if there be any truth in the discoveries of chemical science, will far surpass any that has ever been applied to the uses of agriculture. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said James Alexander Manning in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th November 1860. 30 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, I, James Alexander Manning, of the Inner Temple, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of our 35 Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
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